Pregnant Simpson poses naked and reveals baby’s a girl

It’s a girl, reveals pregnant Texan Jessica Simpson, who also reveals a lot more in her Demi Moore-style naked pose on the cover of Elle’s April issue.

If you’ll recall, Moore did a similar pose for Vanity Fair’s August issue in 1991 when she was pregnant with daughter Scout.

Abilene native Simpson, who begins her weekly NBC gig on new designer competition show, “Fashion Star” (a special 90-minute premiere airs at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday), is keeping mum about her due date as well as the specific name for her baby.

However, Simpson, who is engaged to NFL pro Eric Johnson, did say they have picked their daughter’s name and it won’t be one of those weird ones, such as “Apple” (a la Gwyneth Paltrow) or “Monroe” or “Moroccan” (a la Mariah Carey’s twins). “It’s nothing shocking and nothing you’ll have to add to the dictionary,” she reportedly told the magazine.

As for her other new baby – the NBC fashion show she shares with mentor Nicole Richie and host/supermodel Elle MacPherson – she told TV critics at a recent press session in Pasadena, Calif. how psyched she is about it along with her own fashion line.

“(Fashion) has been a huge blessing in my life, and it’s so fun to get in there and to work with fabrics and different patterns and be able to make and produce clothes for the everyday women,” Simpson said, “and we’re really with this, we really wanted to mentor all of these designers.”

In fact, two of the designers are from her own home state of Texas: Ross Bennett, 27, of Austin, and Oscar Fierro, 37, of Lewisville.